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Zōshigaya Cemetery
These are photographs of headstones in Zōshigaya Cemetery. Located in Tokyo's Toshima Ward, the cemetery (address: 4-25-1 Minami Ikebukuro) can be reached on foot from either Ikebukuro Station (about 20 minutes) or the Higashi Ikebukuro subway station (Yūrakuchō Line, about 7 minutes). A far more interesting option -- almost worth the ride on its own --is to take the Arakawa Line streetcar direct to Zōshigaya Station (transfer from JR at ōtsuka Station). Tokyo assumed administrative control over the cemetery in 1874 and gave it its current official name (Zōshigaya Ryōen) in 1935. The transfer of rights to burial plots has been prohibited since 1962. A detailed map (in Japanese only) with names and locations of the most visited graves is available from the cemetery's administrative office for a reasonable "donation" of 100 yen.
Approach everything rationally, and you become harsh. Pole along in the stream of emotions, and you will be swept away by the current. Give free rein to your desires, and you become uncomfortably confined. It is not a very agreeable place to live, this world of ours.
--The Three-Cornered World
Hearn's grave is on the right; that of his wife Setsuko is on the left.
The three headstones in the Koizumi plot.
Kafū's grave is on the right.
The reverse side of the headstone, showing Kyōka's posthumous name.
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More photographs, along with approximate mapped locations, may be viewed by going to the following Picasa Web Album (click the photo). Try the slideshow feature for closeup look at the graves, or start the slideshow (which has more photographs than the galllery above) directly from this page.
